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Transcript: Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures

'All of This Fear Is From People Who Have
Guilty Knowledge of Their Own Actions.'

Updated Sept. 16, 2008 10:16 p.m. ET

WSJ's Amol Sharma sat down with Nathan Myhrvold, founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures, at his Bellevue, Wash., headquarters. They discussed going to court to enforce patents, targeting the company's own investors for patent infringement and the return curve on nuclear reactor technology. (See related article.)

WSJ: Where did you get the idea of using a private equity model to collect patents and license them?